Took the kids to a party yesterday. I really don’t like kids birthday parties. They have a limited control factor over them especially when the other parents are involved. I know most of these parents from the kids school. And since they are Annapolis parents there is a level of competitiveness that is associated with the area. I mean really the whole city is filled with haves and have nots. Awesome. A mom asked me if I was doing the school again next year. Yea, I am. Both kids will be there. Thing one will be there all day everyday. His sister thing two will be there three mornings a week. The other mom begins a long explanation of how they can’t afford the school. I nodded with agreement that school was expensive. Christ, everything is f’ing expensive. It was so uncomfortable how she kept going with the whole expensive thing. I felt like apologizing for being able to afford it. When really how we do it is our business.  So I just sat there trapped, listening to her life quandary. Getting it, I really do. I get that its hard. With everything falling apart now, do you every feeling like justifying what you can afford?